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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I have an issue in that I do not have a prepared response for Question No. 91.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: The best I can do is to tell the Deputy that we will get back to him with some detail on that. I simply do not have the information available.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: The expectation is that decisions will be made on the community centre investment fund by the end of the year. That is as much information as I have on it. I have nothing here to support that.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: Given that it is World Mental Health Day, maybe we could take a 20-minute mental health break.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: At the outset, I would like to offer my condolences to the Chair. I did not know John Naughten, but from everything I have heard in recent days, it is obvious that his parting will not only be a huge loss to his friends and his family but to the wider community as well. I thank the committee for its invitation to discuss the review of the rural social scheme. I am accompanied by Mr. Tony...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: The Deputy made a few points that I will come back on. Regarding the ratio of people with children on the scheme then and now, we have looked into this. We are able to ascertain who we have now, but we have not been able to get the comparative figures for before, when the rules were different. My understanding is, though, that if we were to operate on the previous rules, it would increase...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I do not want to get knotted up in a hypothetical case but in that situation Senator Murphy would be entitled to a range of payments in respect his family members as well. On what the Deputy presented there, we would not be comparing like with like. I agree with the Deputy on value for money. It is extraordinary that not only those on RSS but people on CE and Tús come out every week...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: On the last point, there is an entitlement to stay on after 60, subject to means tests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: It is gone. The six-year rule is gone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: We will have a look for the comparative figures again, but we had difficulty. I asked about this. There was difficulty finding figures we have now to compare, but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I have current ones here for farm assist and jobseeker's. I am not sure if these are the ones the Deputy is looking for, but 46% of people on RSS are on farm assist.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: It is doable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: In the next fortnight.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: While the Senator was speaking, I was trying to clarify the parameters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I think this may relate more to CE than RSS in terms of potential and the facilities the Senator is talking about.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: We can take it on board for sure and have a look at that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: There are quite a few CE participants working in those facilities. We will take what the Senator is suggesting on board. On the means test for over-60s, that is policy now, which means it is pretty much done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Rural Social Scheme: Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection (9 Oct 2024)
Joe O'Brien: Yes.